A bill to begin construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, a 1,179-mile-long method of delivering oil from tar sands in Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico, was defeated in the Senate 59 to 41 today. The defeated plan would have transported 830,000 barrels per day of an oil-based substance called bitumen.
Canada's got the third-largest oil reserve worldwide, according to a report in The New Yorker. The U.S. imports more from Canada than any other nation, and 99 percent of Canadian oil is refined in the U.S.
Since 2008, the plan for the pipeline has been met with outcry from environmental groups, ranchers in the American West, and Native American groups, with one South Dakota Sioux tribe declaring the pipeline an "act of war,"...
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